Horror Movies By Year - 1940

A brilliant plastic surgeon uses his skills to mutilate the faces of his cheating wife and her lover.

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.

Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.

A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber.

A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.

A newlywed couple is visited by a strange old woman who harbors a secret about the young girl's father.

Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum.

A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears it.

A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Archaeologists defile the tomb of mummified Kharis, who was buried alive for falling in love with an Egyptian princess.

The manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.